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María Blanchard. Composition musicale (Musical composition), C.a 1918, Masaveu collection. © Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson
Photo: Marcos Morilla

The Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson presents Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló, an exhibition that brings together the top one hundred works from the Masaveu Collection that were made during the last century.

Curated by María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, senior lecturer in art history at the Complutense University of Madrid, the exhibition is organised around different sections that chart a fascinating journey through twentieth-century Spanish art. Visitors will have the chance to view one hundred iconic paintings and sculptures from different movements, authored by artists such as Pablo Picasso, María Blanchard, Juan Gris, Sorolla, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Luis Fernández, Antonio López, Carmen Laffón, Antoni Tàpies, Manuel Millares, Eduardo Chillida, Esteban Vicente, Juan Genovés, Eusebio Sempere, Soledad Sevilla, Pablo Palazuelo, Cristina Iglesias, Juan Muñoz and Miquel Barceló. 

The works, which have never previously been featured in a major public exhibition, reflect the collecting endeavours begun in the 1960s by Pedro Masaveu Peterson and continued by Elías Masaveu. In recent years those same endeavours have been systematically increased, mainly through the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson. The majority of the works on display belong to the Masaveu Collection but are supplemented by works from the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection and the personal collection of Fernando Masaveu, the Foundation’s president. The exhibition is therefore an opportunity to discover the tastes and lines of work that have defined the Masaveu family’s extraordinary collecting efforts through the years.

Completing the project is a separate section dedicated to works on paper. For conservation purposes, the contents will change periodically and this display will therefore feature successive sets of drawings and photographs.